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'Stolen' laptop leads to Carmel 'victim's' arrest by White Plains cops
WHITE PLAINS - An anti-theft bug planted into a "stolen" computer has led to the arrest of a Carmel man who reported the theft of his company laptop five months ago.
White Plains police Lt. Eric Fischer said Faisal Suleman, 32, of 229 Fox Run Lane, was caught when a computer security company was able to determine that he was using the laptop.
"This is the third time in less than a year that technology installed in stolen property, or in this case, allegedly stolen property, has led to an arrest (in White Plains),'' Fischer said today.
Cops said that Suleman, a salesman for a pharmaceutical company, reported on Sept. 11 that his company-owned laptop had been stolen from his car while it was parked in a North Broadway garage.
On Tuesday, Fischer said, police received a call from Absolute Software Corp., a Vancouver, Canada-based company that installs and monitors a specially designed security software program known as Computrace, which sends a signal over the Internet to a monitoring center.
"They told us that the computer began being used on Jan. 31,'' Fischer said. "Using their software, they were able to retrieve information that identified Mr. Suleman as the person using the computer."
Police went to Suleman's home Tuesday night and arrested him after finding the computer there.
He's charged with criminal possession of stolen property and falsely reporting an incident, both misdemeanors. Bail and court information was not available.
"He obviously thought that he could lay low for awhile and that it would be forgotten about, and he'd have a free laptop,'' said Stephen Midgleyl, a spokesman for Absolute Software. "But the Computrace program activates whenever the computer is turned on. If it's flagged as stolen, it sends a signal to us every 15 minutes and allows us to get information on where it is and, in some cases, who is using it."
He said the company recovers about 60 stolen laptops a week.
Suleman joins three other suspects who were caught thanks to programs contained in the laptops they were accused of stealing.
'Stolen' laptop leads to Carmel 'victim's' arrest by White Plains cops
WHITE PLAINS - An anti-theft bug planted into a "stolen" computer has led to the arrest of a Carmel man who reported the theft of his company laptop five months ago.
White Plains police Lt. Eric Fischer said Faisal Suleman, 32, of 229 Fox Run Lane, was caught when a computer security company was able to determine that he was using the laptop.
"This is the third time in less than a year that technology installed in stolen property, or in this case, allegedly stolen property, has led to an arrest (in White Plains),'' Fischer said today.
Cops said that Suleman, a salesman for a pharmaceutical company, reported on Sept. 11 that his company-owned laptop had been stolen from his car while it was parked in a North Broadway garage.
On Tuesday, Fischer said, police received a call from Absolute Software Corp., a Vancouver, Canada-based company that installs and monitors a specially designed security software program known as Computrace, which sends a signal over the Internet to a monitoring center.
"They told us that the computer began being used on Jan. 31,'' Fischer said. "Using their software, they were able to retrieve information that identified Mr. Suleman as the person using the computer."
Police went to Suleman's home Tuesday night and arrested him after finding the computer there.
He's charged with criminal possession of stolen property and falsely reporting an incident, both misdemeanors. Bail and court information was not available.
"He obviously thought that he could lay low for awhile and that it would be forgotten about, and he'd have a free laptop,'' said Stephen Midgleyl, a spokesman for Absolute Software. "But the Computrace program activates whenever the computer is turned on. If it's flagged as stolen, it sends a signal to us every 15 minutes and allows us to get information on where it is and, in some cases, who is using it."
He said the company recovers about 60 stolen laptops a week.
Suleman joins three other suspects who were caught thanks to programs contained in the laptops they were accused of stealing.
